ENERGY CONVERTER

• US 20080296984A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 12/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsubara, Naoteru, Honma, Kazunari, Shishida, Yoshinori
• Application Number:
  US12/128,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20080296984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/17
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 35/02 with moving magnets and stationary coil systems
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/03 Synchronous motors; Motors moving step by step; Reluctance motors H02K41/035 takes precedence

Abstract

This energy converter includes a first flat coil and a magnet opposed to the first flat coil at an interval, and the first flat coil and the magnet are so formed as to be relatively movable, for converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electromagnetic induction.

Claims

1. An energy converter comprising:

a first flat coil; and

a magnet opposed to said first flat coil at an interval, wherein

said first flat coil and said magnet are so formed as to be relatively movable,

for converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electromagnetic induction.

2. The energy converter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a support provided with said first flat coil, and

first urging means urging said magnet toward a reference position.

3. The energy converter according to claim 2, further comprising second urging means urging said magnet toward said reference position, wherein

said second urging means is so formed as to urge said magnet in a direction intersecting with the direction in which said first urging means urges said magnet.

4. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

a plurality of said first flat coils are provided on the same plane, and

said plurality of first flat coils are arranged in the form of a matrix.

5. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

said magnet includes a first portion magnetized in a first direction intersecting with the surface of said first flat coil and a second portion magnetized in a second direction opposite to said first direction, and

said first portion and said second portion are arranged in a checkered manner.

6. The energy converter according to claim 1, further comprising a second flat coil provided on a side opposite to said first flat coil with respect to said magnet.

7. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

said magnet includes a first portion magnetized in a first direction intersecting with the surface of said first flat coil and a second portion magnetized in a second direction opposite to said first direction,

said first flat coil includes a clockwise coil portion arranged on a position corresponding to said first portion of said magnet and a counterclockwise coil portion arranged on a position corresponding to said second portion of said magnet, and

said clockwise coil portion and said counterclockwise coil portion are connected with each other.

8. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

a core is provided on a region corresponding to the center of said first flat coil.

9. The energy converter according to claim 4, further comprising a first magnetic member made of a magnetic material, wherein

said first magnetic member is provided on a position corresponding to said plurality of first flat coils on a side of said first flat coils opposite to the side provided with said magnet.

10. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

said magnet includes a plurality of first portions magnetized in a first direction intersecting with the surface of said first flat coil and a plurality of second portions magnetized in a second direction opposite to said first direction, and

said plurality of first portions and said plurality of second portions of said magnet are arranged on a substrate in a checkered manner at a prescribed interval.

11. The energy converter according to claim 10, further comprising a spacer arranged between said plurality of first portions and said plurality of second portions of said magnet.

12. The energy converter according to claim 1, further comprising a second magnetic member made of a magnetic material provided on a side of said magnet opposite to the side provided with said first flat coil.

13. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

said first flat coil includes a plurality of coil portions, and

said plurality of coil portions are so formed that respective columns of said plurality of coil portions are serially connected with each other and said serially connected respective columns of said plurality of coil portions are parallelly connected with each other in plan view.

14. The energy converter according to claim 1, wherein

said first flat coil is convolutely formed in plan view.

15. The energy converter according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor unit operating through electric energy converted by said energy converter.

16. The energy converter according to claim 1, further comprising:

a charge holding film arranged at an interval from said magnet, and

an electrode opposed to said charge holding film at an interval, wherein

said charge holding film and said electrode are so formed as to be relatively movable,

for converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electromagnetic induction caused between said magnet and said first flat coil while converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electrostatic induction caused between said charge holding film and said electrode.

17. An energy converter comprising:

a first flat coil;

a magnet opposed to said first flat coil at an interval;

a charge holding film arranged at an interval from said magnet; and

an electrode opposed to said charge holding film at an interval, wherein

said magnet and said first flat coil are so formed as to be relatively movable, and

said charge holding film and said electrode are so formed as to be relatively movable,

for converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electromagnetic induction caused between said magnet and said first flat coil while converting kinetic energy to electric energy by electrostatic induction caused between said charge holding film and said electrode.

18. The energy converter according to claim 17, wherein

said charge holding film is an electret, and

said electrode is a collecting electrode.